Éric Zemmour, who will speak at 4 p.m. for the end of the summer universities of his Reconquête party, in Port-Marly (Yvelines), is not yet expected to announce his candidacy for the presidential election today. He plans to do so in the fall, precisely in October, but there is now no doubt that the former journalist is preparing to launch a second time in the Élysée race. Moreover, those around him claim that 350 sponsorship promises have already been collected. The party teams explain that they recalled the more than 700 mayors who had sponsored Éric Zemmour in 2022 (741 sponsorships obtained in the end).
Travel and public meetings are already being studied, but around the future candidate, it is indicated that there will be fewer meetings than in 2022. In the Pyramids complex of Port-Marly, thousands of people are expected in an amphitheater for the speeches of Sarah Knafo (3 p.m.), then of Éric Zemmour... at the same time as that of Marine Le Pen, in Hénin-Beaumont (Pas-de-Calais). A long line formed at the end of the morning for a signing session of the former candidate for mayor of Paris, who has just published Le Casse du siècle (Fayard), a critical plea for the economic management of the country. Activists launched a Marseillaise while others flocked to the “goodies” stand. The first slogans flourished: “so that France lives”, or even, projected in the background of the stage, “the future is ours”.
The leader of the socialists Olivier Faure, candidate for the presidential election via a primary in the social-democratic space, criticized François Hollande and Raphaël Glucksmann on Sunday for “turning towards the center-right” and at the same time estimated that Jean-Luc Mélenchon was a “competitor” but not an “enemy”.
“When I see François Hollande and Raphaël Glucksmann turning towards the center-right, I tell them: I understand that you are looking for a new majority, but this new majority will not allow us to create a left-wing program and ecological transformation,” he declared on BFMTV.
MEP Raphaël Glucksmann is also a candidate in the primary of the social-democratic space which will choose its candidate for the presidential election in mid-October. Former socialist president François Hollande, for his part, is preparing a candidacy outside of the primary, which could be announced in December, and he believes that it will be necessary to “gather a large number”.
Olivier Faure also underlined the convergences in Parliament between the elected Insoumis, socialists, ecologists and communists and envisaged, in the event of a socialist victory in the presidential election next April and May, support from LFI without participation in the government.
The Minister of Labor, Jean-Pierre Farandou, estimated on Sunday that it was “not illogical” to ask retirees to make an effort as part of the preparation of the 2027 budget, and called for opening the debate on new methods of revaluing pensions. Making retirees contribute, “it’s not a good idea, but it could be a necessity,” the minister said on Europe 1/CNews. “It is not abnormal, it is not illogical, to call on retirees to make an effort,” he continued.
Then, “we must determine which retirees and what nature of effort,” he added, while ensuring that he would not “advance on the thresholds”. The government is seeking to generate around 30 billion euros in savings in 2027, mainly through reduced spending. In this context, pensions are among the avenues examined.
Olivier Faure, candidate for the socialist primary, was the guest of BFM politique this afternoon. The head of the Socialist Party regrets that “life is becoming more and more expensive”. He calls for a fairer system: “it is not fair to make retirees who are not rich contribute to the budgetary effort”.
“We start with those who can afford to pay. It would be racketeering to make retirees contribute more. There is a form of indecency” he insists, proposing instead to take from large inheritances, and “recover 15 billion per year”.
RN candidate Marine le Pen is expected at the Hénin-Beaumont clearance sale where she will deliver her back-to-school speech at 3 p.m., while former socialist president François Hollande will be at the Carvin clearance sale in Pas-de-Calais.
The boss of the PS Olivier Faure will be the guest of BFM Politique this midday and Maud Bregeon, government spokesperson, of the Grand Oral of BFMTV/Figaro, at 6 p.m.
The president of Reconquête, Éric Zemmour, is expected at Port-Marly in Yvelines for his party's summer universities. The possible presidential candidate must give a speech there this afternoon, after that of his number 2, Sarah Knafo.
Gabriel Attal, Renaissance presidential candidate, must spend the day in Sarthe, at the Le Mans fair. He must meet farmers there before continuing his “1000 bistros operation” at 3 p.m.
On Humanity Day, François Ruffin calls for the left to come together, to build a “great common force” to oppose the far right. He castigates the left which “scares”, seeming to attack the LFI candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon: “There are some who have a history, a past. The left-wing forces are more frightening in the country today than Marine Le Pen and the far right.”
“We will not be able to win on the left with two thirds of the French who are afraid of us, who reject us, who hate us. We must not only bring together and expand with the political parties, but also bring together and expand to the French,” urges the presidential candidate Debout, implicitly targeting, without mentioning, the rebel Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
It's a speed race. And the music to which Bruno Retailleau enters the track says it well: “F1” by Hans Zimmer. Eight months before the first round, and while the Les Républicains (LR) presidential candidate continues his campaign hoping to trigger momentum in the opinion polls, there is no time to lose. For his return to school, the Vendéen wanted to address the youth by opposing two generations who “look at each other as in an inverted mirror”: on one side, the one who gives his voice to Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the “destroyer”, and his own, whom the Vendéen calls to choose LR, the party of “reconstruction”.
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Who is most at home at La Fête de l’Humanité? The two radical left presidential candidates, Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Fabien Roussel, each spoke there on Saturday, the first hoping in particular to harvest the communist vote. In front of a compact crowd, which stretched very far from the La France insoumise stand and overflowed into the aisles of the Fête de l'Humanité, Jean-Luc Mélenchon continued to develop the economic and social themes that he has made his own in this new political year.
A speech very compatible with the radical left or far left audience of the Fête de l’Humanité. “The state budget must be freed from the burden of aid without compensation for capital,” insisted the rebellious candidate.
PCF boss Fabien Roussel, who formalized his candidacy last weekend, will hold his first campaign meeting since the Fête de l'Humanité on Saturday at 6 p.m. The opportunity to present his resolutely communist project for this campaign: nationalizations, calls for popular mobilization, referral of Total boss Patrick Pouyanné to court...
It's a speed race. And the music to which Bruno Retailleau enters the track says it well: “F1” by Hans Zimmer. Eight months before the first round, and while the Les Républicains (LR) presidential candidate continues his campaign hoping to trigger momentum in the opinion polls, there is no time to lose.
For his return to school, the Vendéen wanted to address the youth by opposing two generations who “look at each other as in an inverted mirror”: on one side, the one who gives his voice to Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the “destroyer”, and his own, whom the Vendéen calls to choose LR, the party of “reconstruction”.
THE FIGARO REPORT
LR presidential candidate Bruno Retailleau on Saturday accused the National Rally “which claimed to be Joan of Arc of having sold itself to the English”, after the symbolic memorandum of understanding signed by its president Jordan Bardella with his anti-European ally Nigel Farage.
“The RN is the party of the weather vane,” said the boss of the Republicans who toughened his speech against Marine Le Pen and her party during a meeting in front of more than a thousand young LR in Nogent-sur-Marne (Val-de-Marne). “Find me a subject, a single subject on which these hucksters have not changed their minds,” said the candidate who is stagnating between 6 and 10% in the polls.
“France has significant private savings, but these often circulate too late.” It is with this conviction that Matignon is preparing to propose, as part of the 2027 budget, an ambitious tax system on donations, the details of which Le Figaro was able to obtain in advance. Its name: “Transmissions 2027”. Its ambition: “to circulate heritage earlier to younger generations and transform part of the tax advantage into an act of solidarity”.
Vast program, with concrete potential effects for all those who are thinking of passing on part of their heritage - and whose entry into force could take place as early as January 2027, if the budget is adopted before the end of the year. This would be a tax “flash sale”, since the system would a priori only be valid for the year 2027, specifies Matignon.
MATIGNON’S SHOCK PLAN
Still not a presidential candidate but more than ever in the campaign, former President François Hollande called on the socialists to “be proud of the history of their party”, Saturday at the traditional Rose Festival in Frangy-en-Bresse (Saône-et-Loire), where he is part of a socialist lineage dating back more than 50 years.
As a counterpoint to the effervescent Fête de l'Humanité, which is taking place at the same time in Essonne, and where a duel is taking place between the communist Fabien Roussel and the rebellious Jean-Luc Mélenchon, both candidates for the presidential election, François Hollande preferred to go to this small village of 700 inhabitants, because "it is part of history, in socialist memories".
“Be proud of the history of the Socialist Party if you want to be able to give the French a vision of the future,” he declared in front of a few hundred activists. The former president, who no longer hides his presidential ambitions, also called on them to “design the rally between the parties, and in particular for a presidential election”.
The gathering of the right and the center advocated by Édouard Philippe is “too narrow to win”, judged Gabriel Attal on Saturday during the re-entry of the Democrats and Progressives party, before a severe criticism by Bernard Cazeneuve of the Macronist record and the “betrayal” of the “republican front” against the RN.
“I see, as the campaign progresses, that among the candidates declared today, I am the only one to defend the idea of a gathering and a coalition which goes from the Republican right to the left,” declared Gabriel Attal to this party (formerly Territoires de Progrès) associated with Renaissance.
“I regret to see candidates or their supporters with whom we were able to govern between 2017 and 2024, in the same majority, consider that the only possible gathering is that, I quote, of the right and the center. It’s too narrow to win, too narrow to govern,” added Gabriel Attal.
In Nogent-sur-Marne, for the return to politics with young people from the Les Républicains party, Bruno Retailleau calls on young people to be in the “reconstruction” camp. “Youth, you are on the front line,” he urges. “Don’t be conformist, carry your convictions” he continues.
“Dear young people of France, do not support what is happening. Today those who are privileged are the extreme left youth, don’t put up with it! Your heroes are not the executioners of October 7. The youth of France is not the New France of Jean-Luc Mélenchon! We will be the rebuilders of France.” insists the Republican candidate. “You are the men and women of the revival, of the reconstruction.”
The Socialist Party and the Public Place party are organizing their primary, which does not convince the environmentalist presidential candidate, present this Saturday at the “Fête de l’Humanité”.
“There is still one family in our political camp who has not yet decided which candidate they will have. And even at the end of their primary, it may not be as clear as that,” she told a few journalists. “So the game is not yet exactly settled in this election, we know that it will not be like any other,” she added.
Traveling to Moselle at Terres de Jim, at the gathering of Young Farmers, Édouard Philippe defended on Saturday the gathering of the right and the center with a view to the presidential election, ensuring that he was not “in the excitement” vis-à-vis his rivals. He returned to his “initiative” to “reach out” to Gabriel Attal and Bruno Retailleau. Both the Renaissance candidate and the LR candidate have so far refused this meeting proposal.
“I say that I am mayor of Le Havre, and that in all the municipalities of France, when the right and the center present themselves together, they win. When they win, it’s because they are united. I say the same thing for the presidential election,” argued the former Prime Minister of Emmanuel Macron (2017-2020), from the right.
“Everyone has their differences, has their political identity and can say what they believe. But in the end, we have to take our responsibilities and we could talk to each other, not to give up on one or the other, simply to talk to each other and look at what comes next, to see what brings us together and what we can build on,” observed Mayor Horizons of Le Havre.
“I’m not a man in a hurry. I started my campaign a long time ago, I knew the hare and the tortoise. Men in a hurry exist. In general, it’s often too hasty,” he asserted.
This Saturday, many political meetings are expected. At La Fête de l'Humanité, the two radical left presidential candidates, Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Fabien Roussel, must each speak, the first hoping in particular to harvest the communist vote.
